TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 461 
pains, and every effort made to get the calf away had 
failed. With her last calf there had been experienced no 
difficulty. Great tumefaction of the parts existed, and the 
os uteri was so effectually closed that the point of the finger 
could not be introduced. Every means to relax the part and 
bring on efforts to parturiate were resorted to, but without 
any result. The proprietor having asked if any other means 
could be resorted to, the section of the uterus was recom- 
mended, to which he gave his consent, being anxious to save 
the life of the animal. He was duly informed of the risks 
attending the operation. 
The animal was cast and properly secured. An incision was 
then made in the left flank through the skin, &c. ; when out 
came all the large intestines with a jerk. These were received 
in a sheet, which was kept wet with tepid water. The uterus 
was now freely exposed, and an incision being made in it, 
proceeding from above downwards, a dead calf was pulled out 
by the tail. All this was done in less then twenty minutes. 
The parts being now well cleansed by means of affusions of 
warm water, the intestines were returned into their place, 
the incisions closed with the twisted suture, and covered 
with some fine tow steeped in warm wine. A net was then 
applied over the whole, to prevent the weight of the bowels 
displacing the sutures. After the completion of the opera- 
tion the animal got up and began to feed. 
The case terminated favorably, and the animal was sub- 
sequently fattened for the butcher. 
Annales de Medecine Velerinaire . Bruxelles, April, 1858. 
AN ARTICLE ON THE SANITARY POLICE. 
By A. Duviensart, Yeterinaire du Gouvernment a Fossee. 
This is apropos of a project of law on the subject by the 
government of Belgium, and to reorganize the civil veteri- 
nary service. The author deprecates the indiscriminate 
slaughter, as is now the rule of the infected animals, princi- 
pally at the decline of the malady, and after the usual treat- 
ment has failed. He says, the slaughter to be of any service, 
should be resorted to at the invasion of the disease, and when 
yet in its acute form, that being the period at which it is most 
infectious ; but that it can never be useful except in those 
xxxi. 6l 
